Hi,

We have an issue trying to extend our one and only Raid Group.

We have a Raid6 / 8 disks (0-7)  / Raid Group  that we would like to extend with 2 new disks.

Disk 0-7 are 400 GB / Seagate DG118032576

Disk 8-9 are 450 GB / (looking for the refs)

FLARE version : 03.26.010.5.014

SnapView / NavisphereManager / AccessLogix : Active

The Raid Group has 10 LUNs, all created on the 8 existing disks, Raid6, for a total of ~2To.

We have 3 MetaLuns using the diffrent LUNs.

The new disks are visible in the enclosures 8 & 9.

When we go to Raid-Group properties, last tab (Disks), the Expand button is greyed out.

Reading the documentations I see that prerequisites seems ok :

- We can have a RaidGroup in Raid 6 with more than 8 disks,

- We can extend a RaidGroup in Raid 6

What are we missing ?

By the way :

- We cannot afford buying a third disk right now, (and then create a Raid 5 Group, and expand the MetaLuns)

- We cannot consider building a Raid 1 Group, and expand the MetaLuns, not enough secure.

- We really would like to proceed in the cleanest way : defrag and then expand the Raid Group.